cause of declining sea otters population. According to the reading‚ environmental pollution is the main reason for this phenomenon. The lecture‚ on the other hand‚ finds this hypothesis questionable and claims that attacks by predators is a better explanation for otter population declination. The lecture also provides three reasons to repudiate what is mentioned in the passage. First‚ the reading states that there are polluting sources‚ such as oil rigs‚ in the region otters live; in addition‚ water
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Foundation of Ted Hughes’ work Who was Ted Hughes? What’s so special bought him that he was able to use his own life experiences to create wonderful poems? Ted Hughes wrote bought anger sorrow and regret because he saw people in pain‚ his own wife passed away and he regrets his actions from the past. Edward James Hughes or more commonly known as Ted Hughes was born in August 17‚ 1930 at 1 Aspinal Street‚ in Mytholmroyd‚ West Yorkshire to William Henry and Edith Hughes. When Hughes was seven his
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Pondering the future is not an unusual characteristic to have. It is natural to try to figure out what will happen to someone and why. This allows one to consider the realisticness of a dream and what will happen if it isn’t achieved. In Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem”‚ the speaker wonders about his “deferred dreams”. He wants to know if not pursuing his dream will cause regret later in life‚ and I wonder that as well. I want to know what the consequences are for not reaching my goals in life‚ but at
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INTRODUCTION Otters belonging to the order Carnivora of class Mammalia‚ are semi-aquatic members of the family Mustelidae which also includes weasels‚ martens‚ polecats‚ badgers‚ skunks‚ grisons and minks. Otters are placed in the sub-family Lutrinae (Khan W. A. et al.‚2010). Genus Lutrogale ;Smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) (Ogamba E.N. & Abowei J.F.N.‚2012) ( Figure 1) .The smooth otter is the largest otter in Southeast Asia that comment otter. It was named for its shorter‚ smoother
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Sea Otter Metabolics and Thermoregulation Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris) have always intrigued me because they are one of the most recent additions to the marine environment having only been fully aquatic for about 1-3 million years‚ but what really peaked my interest was the fact that they maintain homeostasis as far north as Alaska without blubber in 13-17 degree water‚ and that the metabolic rate that they would have to have must be enormous so I decided to look into what it takes to keep an
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Plath and Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes Both of these poems have a central theme of nature. However‚ the real meaning of each poem can be found elsewhere. In the case of Mushrooms‚ there is a strong sense of a metaphor underneath the surface about the struggle for women’s rights and Plath plays up to this by describing the mushrooms as insidious beings. Hawk Roosting on the other hand‚ implies a metaphor for the arrogant‚ selfish megalomaniacs of today’s world and Hughes achieves this by expressing
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In the poem “Harlem” by Langston hughes i felt that it was very simple and easy to understand‚ being that it was written in the 1950’s and at that time it was a time where people(minorities) had a hope of being free and actually being able to live without any persecution being in the united states. and it was at a time where wwll was still in the hearts of many and would have been very odd that ameicans would go and help free another country beiong that their was still segregation in America and
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Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) are in the order Carnivora and the family Mustelidae. OF all the animals in the family‚ the sea otter is the only one that is completely marine. The others are either land or partially land and partially marine. Like all animals‚ sea otters need to eat to survive and grow. Sea otters are classified as carnivores. One of their choice prey options is the sea urchin. However‚ such is not always the case. According to STUDY 1‚ “ as sea otter numbers increase and the abundance
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08_07 1. The mission of the Sea Otter and the conservation program is to be aware of the fact that the otters could be in danger and it is their mission to make sure they are protected and away from being threatened and study their whereabouts. 2. Sea otters have the tendency to bite when they are in contact with other objects‚ or even humans so feeding should be avoided. Continuing on the same idea‚ human contact should be avoided with the otters for self-preservation and protection. Make sure
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crystal stair”. Mother to Son‚ written by Langston Hughes is a poem of a mother trying to give her child a heads up on life‚ and how hard it may get at times. Life has been difficult for her and she wants to make sure that her son will have a better life than the one that was given to her. She teaches him to have perseverance and make the right choices. Her words of wisdom are surely of an uneducated woman that has plenty of advice to offer. In this poem‚ the mother is trying to inspire her son to keep
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